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Ice­cave collapse
kills 1, injures 4
SNOHOMISH COUNTY HIKING SPOT HAS PROVED DEADLY BEFORE
Median
home
price:
a half
million
JUNE SALES FIGURES
FOR KING COUNTY
Smashes record set
in summer 2007
By SANJAY BHATT
Seattle Times business reporter
COURTESY KING 5
The Big Four Ice Caves are seen from the air after Monday’s partial collapse. Several of the injured were airlifted out by emergency crews.
the area, said sheriff’s spokes­
woman Shari Ireton.
Ireton said the body of the
deceased, who was not identi­
fied, remained at the scene
Monday night. Four people —
three adults and a female juve­
nile — were taken to area hospi­
tals.
“There was a large pile of ice
and rock that came down,”
Ireton said. “In many ways, it
was similar to an avalanche.”
The three most seriously
injured — two men and a wom­
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Paramedics transport one of the injured after the partial collapse at the Big Four Ice Caves.
Sanders’ momentum shakes Clinton allies
By AMY CHOZICK AND PATRICK HEALY
The New York Times
Hillary
Rodham
Clinton
Sen. Bernie
Sanders, of
Vermont
The ample crowds and unexpect­
edly strong showing garnered by
Sen. Bernie Sanders are setting off
worry among advisers and allies of
Hillary Rodham Clinton, who believe
the Vermont senator could overtake
her in Iowa polls by the fall and even
defeat her in the nation’s first nomi­
nating contest there.
The enthusiasm that Sanders has
generated — including a rally attend­
ed by 2,500 people in Council Bluffs,
Iowa, on Friday — has called into
question Clinton’s early strategy of
focusing on a listening tour of small
group gatherings and wooing big
donors in private settings. In May,
Clinton led with 60 percent support
to Sanders’ 15 percent in a Quinnipi­
ac poll. Last week the same poll
showed Clinton at 52 percent to
Sanders’ 33 percent.
“We are worried about him, sure.
He will be a serious force for the
campaign, and I don’t think that will
diminish,” Jennifer Palmieri, the
Clinton campaign’s communications
director, said Monday on MSNBC’s
“Morning Joe.”
Some of Clinton’s advisers ac­
knowledged that they were surprised
by Sanders’ momentum and said
there were enough liberal voters in
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Chloe Jakubowski was one of
dozens of people who had fled
scorching temperatures for the
cool shadows of the Big Four Ice
Caves, a popular recreation spot
in the Mount Baker­Snoqualmie
National Forest Monday after­
noon.
Jakubowski, 18, who had just
moved to Bothell from Napa,
Calif., was with friends just
inside the cave when the silence
was broken by a loud crack. Ice
and debris rained down, scatter­
ing the visitors. Jakubowski
covered her head with her arms
and crouched behind a giant
rock of ice.
When she stood up, she found
mayhem.
A woman next to her lay un­
conscious. Nearby, other hikers
lay with cuts and broken bones.
“As soon as it stopped I
looked up and looked around
me and it was extremely grue­
some, honestly,” said
Jakubowski, who suffered
scratches and other minor inju­
ries.
“Everybody there, we
grabbed everybody out and
helped as best we could,” she
said.
The Snohomish County Sher­
iff’s Office said one person was
killed when tons of ice and rock
collapsed near the mouth of the
popular caves, and four others
were injured, three seriously.
Rescue efforts were delayed for
nearly 45 minutes because of a
lack of cellphone reception in
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Seattle Times staff
The median price of King
County single­family homes sold
in June climbed to $500,000, up
10.3 percent from a year ago,
according to figures released
Monday by the Northwest Multi­
ple Listing Service.
The frenzied market repre­
sents a new peak for King Coun­
ty home prices: The last peak of
$481,000
was in July
New high
2007, at the
for housing
height of the
The median
nation’s
prices of King
housing
County single­
bubble.
family
But real­
estate ex­
$500,000
perts say this
June 2015, up
market is
10.3 percent
different in a
from a year
number of
ago.
ways. Buyers
$481,000
now must
leap over
July 2007, the
many more
height of the
hurdles to
nation’s
qualify for a
housing
mortgage.
bubble.
Hiring at
Source: NW
technology
Multiple Listing
firms has
Service
expanded
the region’s economic base. And
a drought in listings that sur­
faced in 2013 has no end in
sight.
“I wouldn’t say we’re in a
bubble,” said Alan Pope, a real­
estate appraiser in Redmond. “I
would say the balloon is grow­
ing, and I can’t tell when it’s
going to stop.”
Lennox Scott, CEO of John L.
Scott Real Estate, said that over
the long term, homes in the
region appreciate 4 percent
annually. Home prices lost so
much ground during the past
recession that the market today
is just slightly above where it
should be by that measure, he
said.
Local buyers now have to
compete with people moving
here for new jobs, foreign buyers
and millennials looking for their
first home, Scott said. More are
leaping into the market to lock
in interest rates before they rise,
he said.
Buyers are fighting for fewer
available homes. In June, the
number of single­family and
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